It's different for guys. They don't feel the same way about proms that girls do. Girls see it as a chance to feel like a princess. Guys see it as a chance to have sex.
It might’ve been nice if he’d awakened her to say, I’m getting naked to wash now, so if you don’t want to be embarrassed, close your eyes. But then, no—Ian wouldn’t do that. It was his cabin. And he w...
It isn’t that funny. Are you kidding? It’s hilarious! She laughed a little more and finally said, Paul, he’s a trained interrogator. You walked right into it! I don’t see the humor… Well, if you don’t...
If you want a place to sit for a while, while you think things over, you can have that room that smells like bacon in the morning for as long as you want. Then very quietly, almost to himself, he said...
If she looked his way, even once, he’d have to think of something clever to say. He’d have to smile, walk confidently across the room to their table, say hello and get friendly. He’d have to make them...
If he was going to be a father he would be an involved father. He was more than committed to taking on little Matt and he hoped…no, he prayed, Vanni could accept his child as part of the package. But...
I was just about to tell you when she came bounding in the front door. Rosie doesn’t walk anywhere. You were just about to tell me? A few years after the fact? I told you I needed a commitment, that I...
I needed a purpose greater than myself.
I have nothing again, she said. A little suitcase, a car with stolen license plates on it, a child and one on the way... You have everything, he said. A car with stolen license plates, a son, a baby o...
I have a feeling I might need some child-care assistance at the house, he said. If Paige needs Mel during the night, can you and Mike come out to my place, stay with the kids, so I can stay here with...
He’s starting to get on my nerves when he does that thing about the women, he said, taking her elbow and steering her toward the bluffs. We’ve been all over that. He can give it a rest anytime. He had...
He’d held Brie’s hand for a long time that day, and she hadn’t pulled it away. It was the first time he’d realized he was taken with her. A crush. At thirty-seven, he felt it was an old man’s crush, b...
Hey, Jack, John said. Why don’t you go ahead. I’m right here. Go ahead, bring her out. No way, man, he said, backing away. Come on—you know you want to. Might as well. You did the hard part. You put u...
Her relationship with Paul went back much further, of course. It wasn’t as though they became friends because of Matt’s death. In fact, that night long ago when she met Matt, it had been Paul across t...
He entered the bathroom just in time to see her lowering herself into the tub. Her long hair was pinned up on her head and there were bubbles. It was in his mind to pass her a beer and sit on the clos...
God, I wish I could do this for you. That makes two of us. She closed her eyes for a moment. Two minutes later she was seized by another one. She panted through it. Jack went to the bathroom and wet a...
George, please sit down, Luke said. Visit a while. Thanks, don’t mind if I do. George pulled a chair over from an empty table and sat right beside Maureen so that she was sandwiched between himself an...
Every time his eyes even fell on her, he felt himself swell with pride that she would choose him. It
Do you think it’s a bad omen to meet in a cemetery? she asked him. I have a special fondness for this place, he said. This is exactly where you completely lost control, threw yourself at me and passio...
Do you suppose we’ll be doing that again? he asked. That kind of kissing? Beats the hell out of those little pecks and pats, don’t you think? she asked. I have to agree with that, yes, he answered. Le...